From what I hear, you aren't missing much, although I didn't get a chance to step into anything myself. It seems that unless I put a group together to do the daily heroic, things are pretty much done in my guild, its a sad day.

Other than that, the instances were crazy lag last night, so much so that we couldn't even zone into a 25-man. You should be thankful that you don't have to sit around wishing it would work, lol.

On a side note, the orphan quests are really quite short, and then there is always the fun little pet you get. It only took maybe 30min, but that's because I was doing my fishing and cooking dailies, too.